Why H100 rental prices differ between providers

On 12 Nov 2026, 19 providers listed an on-demand H100 price, from $1.99 to $11.06 per GPU-hour, with a median of $3.90.

Many sellers make a wide range. That is good for a buyer who reads the rows, and confusing for one who reads only the lowest number.

The H100 is listed in machines of one, two, four and eight. All of them print a per-GPU figure. The figure on a machine of eight is one eighth of the hourly bill.

CPU cores, system memory, local disk and network differ widely at one GPU price. Some H100s sit in a full server. Others are shared out in small slices of one. A lower price often means less machine.

Some providers own their machines. Others resell machines that belong to someone else, and the price is set by whoever owns each one. Listings of the second kind can be low and can vary from one hour to the next.

A reserved rate shown as the headline price looks cheaper than an on-demand rate elsewhere. It is a different product. And a price costs nothing to leave online after the machines are rented, so some low figures cannot be started.

This site lists on-demand prices and labels each row: Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked.

Decide how many GPUs you need. Keep the on-demand listings of that size that can be started. Compare their hourly totals in the unit each bills in. Then look once at the newer cards’ tables, in case one of them does the job on fewer cards.

Runcrate lists each GPU with its own price per GPU-hour, read from its live feed when a page is built. Billing is by the second on most GPUs, and booting is never billed. Runcrate can start an H100 now from $3.87 per GPU-hour.

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